Poster exhibition: The art of preventive health and safety in Europe

Exhibition, 26 September - 18 December, Brussels, Belgium

26 September - 18 December 2013, ETUI Documentation Centre, 4th floor / ITUH, 1st floor / 10 am – 4 pm weekday / Admission free

Poster exhibition: The art of preventive health and safety in Europe

The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) is pleased to invite you to its poster exhibition and film screenings on “The art of preventive health and safety in Europe”. Historical and vintage posters from various European countries will be exhibited to show how graphic design has been used to promote health and safety prevention in more than 20 different cultural environments.

The exhibition highlights how workplace health and safety messages and slogans have evolved, from blaming individual workers for accidents and mistakes to promoting a more proactive approach to prevention. The body of work proposed also demonstrates the historical importance of occupational health and safety for the European trade union movement.

From an artistic point of view, the exhibition offers a journey through the art of the 20th century and across key national artistic and graphic movements.

With the support of the ITUH

The event will include three midday film showings:
(refreshments will be provided before the screenings at 12 noon)

16 October
La mise à mort du travail : La destruction,
Jean-Robert Viallet, 2009, France
(in French, 65’)
A presentation will be given by the filmmaker Jean-Robert Viallet who was awarded the Albert Londres prize (French equivalent of
the Pulitzer) for the film in 2010.
ITUH, room B, 1st floor

21 November
Immaginare la salute, la rappresentazione audiovisiva dei rischi nell’ambiente di lavoro,
A. Giannelli, M. Zaccaria, 1992, Italy
(in Italian, 43’)
A presentation will be given by Andrea Tozzi, Occupational Health and Safety inspector at Azienda Sanitaria Locali in Genoa (ASL 3), Italy.
ITUH, room C, 1st floor

18 December
Kameradschaft (Comradeship),
Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1931, Germany
(in German with English subtitles, 93’)
A presentation will be given by Laurent Vogel, researcher at the ETUI.
ITUH, room B, 1st floor

http://www.etui.org/Events/Poster-exhibition-The-art-of-preventive-health-and-safety-in-Europe